Empty Beach brings Australian novelist Peter Corris' detective hero Cliff Hardy to the big screen. F/X star
Bryan Brown plays Hardy, who this time around is hired to confirm or disprove the reported death of a millionaire. Hardy confers with journalist Brian Henneberry (Clifford Tate), who has some potentially explosive evidence -- and who, inevitably, is murdered before he can talk. The trail of evidence runs hot and cold, thanks to a gaggle of suspects and hangers-on who aren't revealing everything that they know. Co-starring in
Empty Beach is Anna Maria Monticelli, aka
Anna Jemison. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide